long jump

noun

: a track-and-field event in which a jump for distance is made usually from a running start

long jumper noun

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At the other extreme, the three exercises that were most correlated with the rest of the tests were push-ups, standing long jump, and the Beep Test. —

Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024 America’s Tara Davis-Woodhall was dominant in the women’s long jump, too. —

David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024 Woodhall’s wife, Tara Davis-Woodhall, won gold at the Paris Olympics in the women’s long jump earlier this summer. —

Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2024 This comes a few weeks after his wife, Olympian Tara Davis-Woodhall, won her gold medal in the women’s long jump. —

Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for long jump